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    China is building pregnancy robot to carry your baby for you

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    1. The_Endless_Man on

      A team of Chinese scientists is pushing the boundaries of reproductive technology with an ambitious project that sounds straight out of science fiction: humanoid robots designed to carry and deliver human babies.

      The concept promises to revolutionize how we think about pregnancy and childbirth. According to Zhang, these robots would be capable of carrying pregnancies for approximately 10 months before facilitating delivery.

    2. DarthWoo on

      If you can get to having viable artificial womb, what practical purpose does overcomplicating it by putting it in a robot serve? All you’re doing is introducing potential new hazards to the artificial womb.

    4. MountainOpposite513 on

      Kinda tracks in the context of China’s former one child policy and ongoing birth control and sterilisation measures directed at Uyghurs. They sure love their population manipulation methods.

    5. lookslikeyoureSOL on

      Ah yes. Pod babies.

      No way these kids will grow up to be psychopaths. Im sure they’ll be perfectly mentally stable.

    6. Uluburun11 on

      If they can make an artificial womb, which i doubt for the time being, i don’t think the robot is necessary.

    8. Festering-Fecal on

      China is speed running being a sci Fi eutopia and America is trying to go back to the dark ages 

    9. Vulcan_Fox_2834 on

      Keep Morty away from Gwendelyn … also can I order one … just as a souvenir, you know in case my already dead grandpa gets resurrected

    11. iama_computer_person on

      It’s going to spin up a whole new genre of Yo’ Momma jokes ..    

      Edit: word

    12. hatred-shapped on

      Going full brave new world again there China. That one child policy really did bite them on the ass

    14. Anastariana on

      >The company aims to unveil a working prototype as early as 2026

      Bullshit.

      >with an estimated price point of 100,000 yuan (roughly $14,000 USD)

      *Hyper* bullshit.

      This is a grift.

    15. Eliiiiiiiiiias on

      This post sucks. Stop posting garbage articles with AI pictures that are meant to fool some Investors. This is not better than the classic „this magical pill lets you loose … amounts of fat a day“ articles, just packaged in to a digestible Reddit format instead of some shitty shady web pop up

    16. Tenacious_Ritzy_32 on

      The fetus goes through a lot of bonding with the mother while in the womb. Learning the mom’s voice, language, tasting the food she eats, etc. Gonna have some weird robot babies, I guess?

    19. TFT_mom on

      “He emphasized that the artificial womb technology “is already in a mature stage” and requires only full integration into the robotic platform to support human fetal development.” – anyone who knows anything about the current advancements in the field knows these claims are ridiculous, imo the whole thing is BS. 🤷‍♀️

    21. PesticusVeno on

      I’m sorry but this is stupid and will go nowhere. I’m willing to bet that the research team will quietly abandon the project once they’ve milked the publicity for grant money. An artificial womb is certainly an interesting idea with plenty of potential benefit, but there is no reason to couple it with the added complexity of a humanoid robot. That is just asinine.

    22. illusionmist on

      One Child policy plus low birth rate? No problem. We’re just gonna grow them out of a farm.

    23. NanditoPapa on

      The company claims it’s building a working prototype for 2026, priced around $14,000.

      Let’s see…no independent verification of a functioning human-capable prototype, no regulatory approval for human embryo uses beyond 14 days in China, and no clinical trials or peer-reviewed data yet. So, while it’s not pure vaporware, it’s still early-stage tech with a heavy dose of sci-fi optics.

    24. tealcosmo on

      Carrying the baby is the easy part.

      Until we can find a way to do child and baby care that doesn’t sacrifice years of lives then I suspect won’t care.

    26. Any-Individual5262 on

      There was an another product called EctoLife. It was supposed to be gestation carrier from zygote to baby.

      That form factor I think was better. It was like a large circular jar on top of a table.

      For this purpose you definitely don’t need a humanoid robot.

    27. Banaanisade on

      I cannot under any circumstances see this being psychologically healthy for the baby. Socialisation quite literally starts in the womb – the baby experiences everything the mother does, it hears when it’s spoken to, it feels movement, it listens to music, every little thing is crucial. If neglect, even “only” emotional, within the first few months can kill a baby, or damage its development in fundamental ways for the rest of its life, what can depriving it of a living mother entirely from the very first moments of its existence do to it?

      We know nothing about the brain, and even less about what this sort of detachment would do to the child.

    29. reddit_is_geh on

      They’ve been trying to do this for a while. Pregnancy is unbelievably complicated, and a science we hardly understand. What makes it so difficult is that there are a lot of hormone flushes that have to be timed at the right moment, as well as really subtle things, like tiny electrical pulses, again, timed for events and moments we really quite don’t understand.

      When they’ve done this in the past with animals, they may become born, but they are always a runt. Very critical parts of the process are being left out, and we literally barely understand when and why to get the timing down.

    30. Xanthus179 on

      Gonna be really awkward if you forget your password after nine months and can’t release the child.

    31. marrow_monkey on

      How will they keep the baby fed, doesn’t it need the mothers blood full of nutrients to grow?

    32. Tall_Estate_9753 on

      Probably could have just cut out the middle man and spent some time and  resources not killing female members of your population 

    34. GooseQuothMan on

      So far what they’ve built is some dumb ai generated images. 

      Do they actually have any progress or inventions or is it just complete bullshit attention bait?

    35. dashingstag on

      Ppl are missing the fact that this means you can have state owned babies, some guy and girl just need to sign off their rights of sperm and eggs.

      Then the government will claim due to falling birth rates and crashing economy they need to have state owned babies.

    37. Omateido on

      What’s the over/under on China or any other country using this tech to grow genetically engineered super soldiers?

    38. Habba84 on

      Let’s say this thing works, and it’s a viable alternative for natural pregnancy.. how will that affect women’s perceived value in society? Will they gain a career boost? Will they face even more discrimination? Could this defeat the birth rate crisis?